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“Where,
after all, do universal human rights begin?
In small places, close to home--so close and so small that they
cannot be seen on any maps of the world.
Yet they are the world of the individual person; the
neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the
factory, farm, or office where he works.
Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks
equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without
discrimination. Unless
these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.
Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home,
we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
Eleanor
Roosevelt
This
site is devoted to Eleanor Roosevelt, the role she played at the
United Nations in adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),
and the legacy she left in promoting human rights in the United States
and throughout the world.
It
is designed to provide background material and information to teachers
in order to more effectively teach human rights to their students. It
also seeks to stimulate awareness to all users of this site to study
and confront human rights violations such as bigotry, poverty, censorship,
the abuse of women and children, slavery, political prisoners,
torture, genocide and others to continue to help address the
“unfinished agenda” of human rights issues on a local, national,
and international level.”
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